Monday, June 8, 2009

I felt the pain on Tuesday, about a mile into my run, and ran through it. No pain after the run until later that night when I felt a pinch at the top of my knee. A little ice and ibuprofen seemed to do the trick but when I ran on Wednesday, I felt it again.

Boo. Hiss.

I took Thursday and Friday off and did some Shred workouts instead. On Saturday, I had planned to run a 5K but skipped it because I had Conal's party that afternoon and just way too much going on. So, another day off.

Yesterday, I decided to test it out on a 5-mile run. No problem. Today, though? I feel it. What gives?

I'll pull back a little this week and use some ice and Advil when necessary. Hopefully that will take care of it. It really isn't bad, just annoying.

Even with the knee thing, I had a great weekend! Two parties for my little two-year-old (toddler party on his birthday and then a family hoo-ha the next day). Fun. He loved it all. Especially the cupcakes. And I don't blame him because if there is one thing I can do, it's bake up a yummy cupcake and top it off with some butter-laden frosting goodness.

Sorry about the knee pain. The annoying things can be pretty bad, despite not being bad. At least they always make me second guess whether I'm worrying too much or too little. Sounds like you're doing just right. Hope the booing and hissing drives the pain away.

hmm if you had runners knee I don't htink you would have made it through 5 miles. when I had it, I was down and out for a few weeks because once your knee slides out it takes a bit to work the strength back

I was diagnosed with Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome a number of years back. The doctor told me to do a series of exercises, and that it would fix it. I was skeptical, but gave it a shot.

The main one I did was to lie on my back, and raise one leg 6 inches or so and hold it. Repeat on the other leg. Back, and forth. After a couple of weeks, the quad was really strengthened, and it helped immensely..

Aaand now I'm seriously craving a cupcake! I hope your knee feels better too!! I ran about all these crazy injuries in RW....whew, what are we doing to ourselves?! ah well, that's what Ice is for right? ;)

also - Thank you for the comment yesterday, a routine shake up is definitely doing wonders!

I get that randomly...I've gotten shoes with arch support and that's reduced it considerably, that and mixing up my running into run 5 min and walk 2 min alternations. I was also told to make sure I stretch out my ITB band to reduce strain on my knee. I don' t know why, but it halps a lot all combined.

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